Argument For The Existence Of God

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Many believe that God was self-created or self-causing which is baffling because “God as cause” would have to precede “God as effect”. If we continue to go off the claim that no one created God, concluding that God is eternal, then why not make the notion simpler in the fact that the universe is also eternal? For an example, matter can change into energy just as so energy can change into matter, but the sum total of matter equals energy, remains constant. Same with the universe, it has no outer boundary, nor will the form change. There is no place that is symmetrical for it to go, concluding that there is no place for it to come from. Conclusively, arguments for and against the existence of God have been proposed by philosophers, theologians,

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